[cactus]

Alien insects has started to invade earth, your mission is to kill as many of them as possible.

Or maybe Shyan's interpretation of the story was a little better:
"Insect Invade is a two-dimensional shooter where you are a drunken man trying to defend himself from the invading insects. Of course, these bugs will not give up easily, they will hunt you down!"



WORKING DOWNLOAD
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Insect Invade II is the long awaited sequel to Insect Invade. Actually, it's more like a remake of Insect Invade with lots of fun stuff added.

The graphics are vastly improved, but retain the same feel as in the old game. I've implemented many new things, such as explosions, light effects, enhanced backgrounds and a lot more selfmade particles!

New elements to the gameplay has also been added. You can now shoot in 360°, dodge your enemies by jumping over them, climb the piles of carcasses left by all the insects you've slain, toss grenades and pick up a few new power ups!

The sound has also been thoroughly reworked, with midi music and great sound effects!

However, this is still just a tiny arcade game. It was created in less than two days and was never meant to be very serious. Expect some good, clean fun! Nothing less, nothing more.

Controls:
Walk - Left/Right Arrow
Jump - Up Arrow
Fire - Left Mouse Button
Grenade - Right Mouse Button

Enjoy!

Please tell me if you find any bugs! (no pun intended)

note: This is the first time I ever post a game here, so try to be nice... 'kay?

This post has been edited by cactus: 28 February 2007 - 02:41 PM

[Joerdgs]

it looks nice

[Darkodin]

Come on people. This game owns. And it gets less replies than DuffMan? (Nothing against Duffman)(except it's poo)

So come on. Download it. I especially like the Comet Gun. You can kill those aliens in herds. But it doesn't leave many Carcasses which you can Climb Over and even Shoot. This is a great game. I got like, 48 kills. Really challenging.

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Please tell me if you find any bugs! (no pun intended)

Ahahahahaha.

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it looks nice

It looks nice! It looks nice!! I think you're supposed to download it and play.

This post has been edited by Darkodin: 03 April 2005 - 01:20 PM

[THE KAPPTIN]

Good game, I think it's games like this that GM is the best at: not much depth or quantity of content, simple gameplay, but a lot of fun.

I really don't have much to say about this. It was a lot of fun to play, my top score is 56 kills. Edit: now 83 kills.

Take out the music and this will be a great game... as it is, it's a great game with annoying music.

Also you should request people post their high scores: makes for a little more fun and friendly competition (and probably a little more total playtime for everybody).

This post has been edited by THE KAPPTIN: 04 April 2005 - 12:49 AM

[Darkodin]

Yep. And the new updated version is even better. I got 104 kills. On the updated version of course.

[hughman]

Wow screenshot looks awesome... dl link doesn't seem to be working for me though well I'll try again later

[cactus]

WORKING DOWNLOAD

Yay, I had given up all hope of getting any more replies to this topic

THE KAPTIN: You don't like the music? I'm quite proud of it, although I made it in less than five minutes. I like it a lot, anyway.

Well, the updated version contains two new weapon power ups: a minigun and a rocket launcher shooting homing missiles. I added counters for each power up, so that you can see how much time is left before they wear off. Killing insects in the air now extends the time of your weapon and grenade power ups, not if you have the minigun or rocket launcher, though.

There's also a few minor graphical updates that should make the game look a bit nicer. And some bugs have been fixed.

I'm working on one final big secret update... Afterwards this game will hopefully be good enough to be left as it is.

I might try to add an online highscore table, but it's probably to complicated for little old me.

My highscore is 104, the best one being smoofano's incredible 126.

Feel free to post yours!

This post has been edited by cactus: 28 February 2007 - 02:42 PM

[Nelson]

Good and hard. I like it. maybe on the next one you can add a health bar so you don't get killed so fast

[Kapser]

This game is very good nice gameplay, but true its hard my best score was only37.
I think it would be cool if the sky's color change when you get high kill points.
And this game would really be awsome if it was 2 player, maybe with another type of control...

good job very addictive

[hughman]

ok finally got dl to work

anyway awesome game I liked it
definitely too hard... easy mode maybe?

very addictive though

[cactus]

A lot of people seem to think that the game is way too hard. It's really tough for me to decide wether to add an "Easy Mode" or not... It would kind of ruin the whole highscore system, and many people have clearly expressed themselves to be against the idea.

I will add some unlockable things that will probably make people more eager to get better at the game, though.

If anyone still feels that there needs to be an easy mode, please tell me.

[THE KAPPTIN]

I don't think you should add in that easy mode.
About the music thing, it's not that your music really is bad (I can't remember), it's that I have my own music on and like to have the option of not having other music, because when I can't turn game music off I have to go to all the trouble of turning my own music off... and generally game music is not as good as CD's.

This is my favourite game to pop up on the GMC in a long time... the frantic, 1-room high-score contest is definitely my favourite type of game. If I had lost the last round (hah, yeah right) of Cagematch I would definitely nominate this.

[cactus]

THE KAPPTIN: Thank you for the kind words! I've added the option to turn off the music by pressing F2. So you may redownload the file if you feel like being able to turn off the music...

This post has been edited by cactus: 28 February 2007 - 02:42 PM

[Cosmic]

This rocks!

A very addicting game thats simple but really fun!

Music:

There was only one song but it was catchy.

7/10

Game Play:

Very addicting and has a good replay vaule.

7/10

Graphics:

Pretty good but there wern't many.

6/10

Total: 7/10

[battlegorge]

Its a cool game. Its fun and very addictive!
I like the effects and the gameplay.
The only negative thing is its shortness.
My suggestion is:
Make 10 waves with some different enemies.
And 2 big bosses after levels 5 and 10.
This would be great for a possible version 3!

[THE KAPPTIN]

battlegorge, on May 3 2005, 06:37 AM, said:

I have 3 suggestions:
An insect which tries to jump on you.
And an insect which comes out of the ground.
A sniper rifle similar to the shotgun but it shoots less often but with 100% accuracy and much faster bullets.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Adding different enemies in would really defeat the purpose, imo. My top score is now 94, I've been playing this quite a bit. Very glad to have the music-free version.

[battlegorge]

Where are the 2 post i posted here ?
They are gone? Very mysterious.
My score is 118 now.
And the suggestions were just for a possible II3.
This version is very good as it is.

[battlegorge]

My new highscore is 131.
Are you still working on the big update cactus ?

[cactus]

Sorry about not replying, I thought this topic was dead. I might update the game, but right now there's too much else to do. I think I'm probably going to save the update for Insect Invade 3, which I'll probably make sometime during summer (expect big improvements). The current top score is 184 by smoofano. I've only gotten 142 at best, but I'm pretty happy with that.

The game seems to have gotten a few dedicated fans, but most people were thrown off by the high difficulty. I'm pretty torn about wether I should make II3 easier than II2 or not. What do you guys think?

[battlegorge]

Yes better save all changes for II3.
My suggestion is make several waves/levels wich you have to survive.
Starting with easy but not too easy and ending in nearly impossible!